RE: FLASH: Greetings and first question

[Scott Jeppesen]

First make sure that the field is set to an expression and not a string

literal. Then if you want to change the rotation by say 10% per MC you could

do something like this:


Assume TotalClips is the total number of copies and that your original clip

is called "Clip1"


Set Variable: "x" = 1

Set Variable: "TotalClips" = 100

Loop While (x <= TotalClips )

Duplicate Movie Clip ("/Clip1", "Clip"&x, x+1)

Set Property ( "/Clip"&x , _rotation  ) = GetProperty ("/Clip"&x, _rotation)

+ 10

Set Variable: "x" = x + 1

End Loop


Of Course the clips would be rotated but they would be right on top of

eachother. Use a similar method to move each one.


SJ

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Subject: FLASH: Greetings and first question



Hi all, I just subbed to this list,  I have been using flash on and off for

3 years or more but I just recently got into trying some of the new flash 4

stuff.


My question is this, has anyone had any success with using variables in the

Set Properties action.  Basically I am trying to create a loop that steps

up the rotation amount for each new instance of a movie clip.  But every

time I put something other than a hard integer into the value field nothing

happens.  I don't know if I'm setting the variables wrong (It's been a

while since I've done any programing) or if it simply does not allow

non-integer values.


Any help would be appreciated esp if anyone nows of some good tutorials on

using these features in flash.


Cheers

Ian


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